I flew in F for 2 segments today and couldn't even find a bag (I was curious). But what I did find, on my first flight, was 2 empty pretzel wrappers, an empty can of chewing tobacco and (shudder) a half full Dasani bottle of brown juice. gross! I'll post a picture on another thread later tonight.

This thread made me chuckle. A number of years ago I was on a flight from LHR -YYZ. There was a lovely lady next to me and we chatted for much of the flight. On descent into YYZ, after the seatbelt signs were on and the FA's all buckled in as well, she informed me that she suffered from airsickness and proceeded to barf into her bag. She then quickly handed me what seemed at the time to be an almost full bag and proceeded to fill mine as well.

The smell had my stomach churning but my biggest memory is of nursing the bag she'd given me ( the top of which I'd secured with the tabs).One hand gripping the top tightly and the other gently cradling the bag from below. The now warm bag had a soft and pliant feel to it and I was terrified that either a hard landing or sudden air pocket would cause my hand to involuntarily tighten or move vertically and expel the contents.

I was left holding it until we disembarked, at which time I handed it to a pretty ticked off FA at the door, who presumably thought it was mine. Only time I have ever seen them used and I'm cynical that they are big enough because she was not a large lady and the bag seemed pretty full to me.

I had a terrible migraine in the middle of a flight once. The kind of migraine that makes one sick. I used the air sickness bag. Fortunately, the migraine had kept me from eating or drinking anything other than water, so it was nothing major. Unfortunately, one of the FA was awful to me (told me to hold on to the air sickness bag until the end of the flight as she was awfully busy and stalked off), at which point, I burst into tears. Another FA saw this, came over, asked me what was wrong. I told her I had a migraine. She brought me another blanket (I was shivering) and she said, "Oh honey, those are the worst! Here, let me take that for you," and discreetly took the bag from me. She brought me water, helped me get my medication out of my carry-on, and kept checking on me throughout the rest of the flight. A real AAngel.

Yeah, it�s a long shot, but if you work in a particularly cool environment, they might be okay with counting some of your vacation days as sick days, especially if you are, well, sick. Give them a ring and see.

Great, now I need one of those bags, just sitting here at a stationary desk.

Then don't look at post #52 at http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/delta...oldfish-4.html

I got really drunk at a party before a long flight I had. I wasn't suppose to drink at all, but somehow one drink after another I was pretty much wasted. With the turbulence and stuff it was really tough. Luckily I was given an op-up at check-in and I asked the agent to give me the seat closest to the lavatory. I tried the barf bag, but filled it up, so I went straight to the lavatory holding the thing all filled. The FA I think figured out what was wrong with me right away and kept offering me water. I think I spend the whole flight in the lavatory throwing up. Otherwise, I don't remember much.

Any other incidents, I think was like 20 years ago.

The bag I now carry with me in a small ziplock baggie (and referenced above from amazon) really should be available on the flights. Perhaps not in each seat, but the FA's should have a supply to hand out on an as needed basis. Of course they could just hand out garbage bags, but these sick bags from the hospitals seem like they'd be better. I haven't had to use mine yet, fortunately.

But hearing the stories from this thread, I fear one might not be adequate on a really bad day. :S

As a kid (~12-13 years old) I used the bag. Even then I nearly filled it. I had to extremely carefully close it. I remember the top of the bag folded a few times and then two small wire clasps were used to hold it shut. After all that your wondering what to do with this full and warm bag.

Thanks, I won't.

Air France bags are good, reinforced with a foldover top with plastic-ish strips so it stays folded. BA bags are kinda floppy, not that confidence-inspiring... and none of them are large enough! I like the idea of the amazon ones.

For my next trip I've actually bought a pack of sealable nappy bags to place filled airsick bags in, because it's always a problem to figure out what to do with the full one while trying to find and open a new one for the next bout!

(Yes, I get airsick a lot. Got new meds for next trip though, which I'm very hopeful about. Haven't travelled for a couple of years now, because it's not fair to me or the other passengers!)

I have never used the bag itself lol, but I have come close hundreds of times. Once I managed to hold it until we deplaned and I ran for the mens room..luckily at my base airport so I knew where it was. Once I lost it in a trash can at PHX in full view of everyone at the USairways gates..luckily it was later at night on a weekday, so not that busy.

Onboard once, food poisoning began to rear it's ugly head. I had felt fine when I boarded, but as boarding went on I began feeling worse and worse. Ran upstream through the boarders to the lav, whereupon I released everything..from both ends but not at the same time. I came out to see the worried looks of the FA and VDB'd myself due to illness. Worse, this was one of the rare times I checked bags so they had to offload them. I am sure it caused delay. While in the terminal talking to staff I had to have another bout of the hurlie whirliees and managed to make it to the men's room.

Myself and a colleague (both of us from UK) were traveling on a domestic flight in India on an early morning flight. She wasn't feeling too great but then the strong smelling Indian breakfasts served in the plane gave her the trigger - she ended up being rather unwell and needless to say the bags didn't hold anything at all and it went everywhere. I was her boss at the time and sat next to her and felt sorry as it was all rather embarrassing. Plus we got stared at more than we were already as the only westerners and women travelling on that plane.

When my grandmother passed away I had to fly with an upper respiratory infection. It was horrible. I was coughing (like hacking up a lung cough) non stop, my ears were killing me and I was depressed. The worst part was this guy telling me off for flying while sick. Which I would be sympathetic to if I didn't have a choice.

I was traveling once with food poisoning. I'd had a bad batch of oysters or sushi or cheese, I couldn't narrow it down.

I asked the FA for a barf bag or two, and she even offered to bring me a trash bag. I said the regular bags would do, but she was very accommodating. Every couple minutes they'd bring me some ice to suck on. I explained to the FA that I was okay to fly, and that I wanted some barf bags just in case.

Very good experience. I didn't have to use it, but it was worth knowing the quick thinking of the FAs would have prevented a minor disaster. I really appreciated the ice and they very very kind.

I've never seen a barf bag being used, but it's happened I'm sure, I just didn't see it.

CK.